[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] Status Changed to Waiting for Development: (ASTERISK-20541) Implement curses/ncurses terminal width checking and apply it to CLI commands used all over Asterisk

[Rusty Newton (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20541?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Rusty Newton updated ASTERISK-20541:
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    Status: Open  (was: Triage)

> Implement curses/ncurses terminal width checking and apply it to CLI commands used all over Asterisk
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>                 Key: ASTERISK-20541
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20541
>             Project: Asterisk
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core/General
>            Reporter: Jonathan Rose
>            Severity: Minor
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> Currently formatting for lists printed to the terminal is handled entirely on a case by case basis and there aren't any real standards being followed. The width of the terminal is ignored and this can make the formatting look awkward whenever a line exceeds the width of the terminal. We can use the COLS value from the curses/ncurses libraries which will generally provide a correct number of characters per line that can be printed as long as these libraries are available.
> Either term.h should provide some way of retrieving COLS at its current value, or if no n/curses library is available, provide a standard default of 80 characters. All CLI commands that generate formatted lists (usually something along the lines of 'X show Y') should be tweaked to take advantage of access COLS.

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